Alliages Workshops – Work with a Gallery
Mastering Art Gallery Partnerships: Turn Your Passion into Representation
Ready to build a successful career in the art world and exhibit your work in galleries, museums or jewellery weeks?
This workshop provides the essential mix of business acumen, strategic presentation, and professional relationship skills needed to earn representation and sustain long-term gallery partnerships.
Key Highlights of the Workshop
- Develop a Cohesive Body of Work: Learn to cultivate a unique artistic voice, maintain a recognizable style, and prioritize quality over quantity.
- Present Professionally: Master digital portfolios with high-resolution imagery, detailed artwork cataloging, a clear artist statement, a professional CV, and strategic pricing.
- Target & Research Strategically: Identify galleries that align with your niche, understand submission policies, and research target spaces online and in person.
- Network with Purpose: Discover how to connect with artist peers, engage meaningfully at art openings, and handle industry rejection with persistence.
- Maintain Gallery Partnerships: Understand consignment agreements, standard commission rates, transparent communication, and vital business ethics like respecting gallery sales channels.
Why You Should do this workshop ?
Building a gallery relationship is a long-term commitment rooted in mutual respect and shared goals. Subscribing to this workshop will give you the practical blueprint needed to navigate the art market with confidence, protect your professional reputation, and advance your creative career.
About the Instructor
Juan Riusech is an artist, curator and former gallery manager born in Barcelona. Juan Riusech founded the Alliages Gallery and orgnaization in 2009, and runned the Gallery in Lille until 2024. He has curated more than 30 exhibitions for the gallery, museums and jewellery weeks, showing the works of hundreds of artists from worldwide. He has a solid experience of more than 15 years in how an artist and a gallery or curator make a professionnal relationship.